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6:30 to 8:30 PM
Ayako’s art combines ritual and process, through simple actions like mowing grass— familiar to many, to reveal a subtle embodiment of how human interaction with nature affects cultural identity. For Ayako, it is not mowing a lot of grass, but an expression of her concept of nature’s cycles and how cultures regenerate. Her mowing, collecting, and burning grass represents this spirit. She constructs a circular ring of bricks to contain the cut grass over a clay relief. She ignites the grass as part of a ritual and for two hours feeds grass into the ring, and as the grass burns, the clay relief hardens from the fire, transforming it into a permanent state surrounded by blackened earth.
www.age.ne.jp/x/aramaki
January 4, 2008
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April 27, 2008
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Meet the artists in residence, from Asia, Europe and the US, view their art and watch their performances. Taste Thu Tran’s culinary interpretation of American recipes, watch Christopher Robbins’s performance, “Return From Space and The Landing Escape”, walk through Sibylle Muff’s installation of reorganized farm shed junk from a Swiss perspective, and stand by as UNL architecture students attempt to dismantle a building into eight parts. Walk through the sculpture pasture to see your old favorites. Visit the reception area to view an architectural display while you enjoy treats and talking with the artists. All this and more will happen at the Art Harvest.
An exhibition revealing the complex interrelationship between art, landscape, and architecture in a rural context, focusing on design proposals for the development of Art Farm. Exploring alternatives to the predominant land uses found in the rural areas of the Great Plains, it asks the question, "Can art form the basis of a post-agricultural landscape?"